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The spread of COVID-19 and implementation of "social distancing" policies around the world have raised the question of how many jobs can be done at home. This paper uses skills surveys from 53 countries at varying levels of economic development to estimate jobs' amenability to working from home....
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Despite the popular view that, with the advent of digital technologies, the world has become flat, geography still plays a key role in the economy. COVID-19 has brought even more awareness of this. This paper studies the impact of security measures that have reduced the mobility of people and...
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proposes an expanded risk assessment based on a framework that adds socioeconomic resilience and uses wellbeing losses as its …
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Dar es Salaam is frequently affected by severe flooding causing destruction and impeding daily life of its 4.5 million inhabitants. The focus of this paper is on the role of poverty in the impact of floods on households, focusing on both direct (damage to or loss of assets or property) and...
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proposes an expanded risk assessment based on a framework that adds socioeconomic resilience and uses wellbeing losses as the …, the paper applies the socioeconomic resilience framework to a cost-benefit analysis of prospective adaptive social …
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Policy makers are increasingly interested in strategies to promote resilience and mitigate the effects of future … protection against shocks, but their role in fostering resilience has been less studied. This paper assesses whether the … drought shocks. It analyzes mechanisms through which cash transfers contribute to resilience, such as savings facilitation …
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This paper presents a review of studies that estimate the cost of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. Although the Sustainable Development Goals provide useful benchmarks for fiscal authorities and donors, typical cross-country costing exercises can be misleading, for a variety of...
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This paper documents the sources of the Republic of Korea's economic growth, as well as the associated productivity growth and efficiency dynamics during its process of structural transformation from 1970 to 2016. The analysis includes land as a separate production factor to sort out the...
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